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hardly any black on the throat. In one of these there are black feathers 

 scattered throughout the area which is all black in the adult male; but 

 the other has but two or three black spots on the throat. These two birds 

 taken May 6th and 8th, 1903, were paired off and preparing to breed. 



Icterus bullocki (Swainson). Bullock Oriole. 



The only time at which I have seen Bullock Orioles at all abundant 

 in the Huachuca Mountains was in August, 1902. About the middle of. 

 the month flocks of from ten to twenty, nearly all young birds, could be 

 seen along the canyons up to an altitude of about 5500 feet. Most of these 

 must have come in from other parts of the country, for I have never 

 found them breeding at all abundantly in the mountains ,being in fact, 

 the rarest of the three species of orioles occurring there. They probably 

 arrive, usually, about the first week in April along with the Hooded and 

 Scott Orioles ; in 1902 I saw one on April 3rd and they were fairly com- 

 mon by the middle of the month, but in 1903 the first I saw was on May 

 4th, after I had begun to think that they were not coming at all. They 

 kept arriving in a leisurely fashion, and it was after the middle of May 

 before I saw any beginning to pair off. They breed mostly along the 

 washes in the same localities as the Hooded Oriole. 



Scolecophagus cyanocephalus (Wagler). Brewer Blackbird. 



I have seen this species about the yards and corrals at Fort Hua- 

 chuca but hardly anywhere else. A solitary female was shot in a dry . 

 wash some three miles from the mountains on May 8, 1903. 



Coccothraustes vespertinus montanus (Ridgway). Western Evening 



Grosbeak. 



I am in doubt as to whether this species breeds in the Huachucas 

 or not, for though I have never seen any at any time in the spring or 

 early summer, on July 30, 1902, I came onto about half a dozen birds 

 scattered through the pines at an altitude of about 9000 feet. An old 

 male was observed feeding a fully fledged young, and secured, but the 

 young one flew off and was not seen again. All that were seen were very 

 wild, and after securing a second bird, a female, I was unable to ap- 

 proach within gunshot of any more. I am satisfied that these birds had 

 not bred anywhere in the immediate vicinity of the place where they 

 were at this time, for I had done a good deal of collecting there during 

 the summer and would certainly have seen or heard them ; but they 

 might have done so in some more distant part of the range which I had 

 not visited. The two secured were in badly worn plumage, the female 

 having commenced to moult. On this occasion all the birds seen were 

 scattered individuals, but on August 3rd a flock of six or eight were seen 

 at a spot some five miles distant, and on August 3Oth a flock of over a 

 dozen was seen near this latter place. These birds were all so wild that 

 I was unable to get anywhere near them, and so none were secured. 



Carpodacus cassini Baird. Cassin Purple Finch. 



A migrant, but probably of irregular occurrence. At various times 

 during the spring of 1903, I saw flocks of Cassin Purple Finch in the pines 

 from 9000 feet upward, specimens being secured from April 8th to May 

 nth; while during the previous year all that were seen were one or two 

 stray birds about the middle of April in the canyons below 5000 feet. 

 They were frequently found in company with the Pine Siskin, feeding 

 simetimes on the ground and sometimes in the trees, the two species 

 flying away together when disturbed. Several male birds secured, one 



